Book 2018

Gestures

Gestures
Artis Ostups
Gestures Gestures
Information
Author
Artis Ostups
Title
Gestures
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Ugly Duckling Presse
Date of Publication
2018
Illustrations
Yes
Material Type
Book
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
64
OCLC Number
1051684175
ISBN
9781937027902
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
Translator
Jayde Will
Artis Ostups. Gestures. Translated by Jayde Will. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.
Description
Gestures is a collection of prose poems connecting seemingly distinct elements, found either in urban space or in the realms of cultural history. Some readers, who had a chance to experience these ghostly constellations in their original Latvian, complained that they cast a melancholic spell. Descriptions of landscapes and people pose no consoling effect, instead they function as darkened reflections of complex human emotions, trying to escape metaphysical abstractions. Cadence is there, but lyricism is not its master.
Gestures is a collection of prose poems connecting seemingly distinct elements, found either in urban space or in the realms of cultural history. Some readers, who had a chance to experience these ghostly constellations in their original Latvian, complained that they cast a melancholic spell. Descriptions of landscapes and people pose no consoling effect, instead they function as darkened reflections of complex human emotions, trying to escape metaphysical abstractions. Cadence is there, but lyricism is not its master.